Daniel Templeman "Back and Forth" || Deborah Kelly "Awfully Beastly"
Daniel Templeman Back and Forth
Be it a large-scale concrete sculpture or a delicate carbon-transfer drawing, a Daniel Templeman work invites us to question its construction, physicality, finish and ultimately what it reveals or conceals. This conundrum gives his work an illusive quality; it places the viewer within this dilemma. His work is as much about what it does as what it is; the artwork incites a perceptional gap, to be completed by the viewer.
Templeman developed an early appreciation of the illusory quality of veneers, laminates and polishes and saw potential parallels with Minimalism, and continues to explore the possibility of an illusory quality coexisting with a literalist approach, oscillating between hard edge reality and perceptual trickery.
Deborah Kelly Awfully Beastly
“I fall asleep with lurid lunar landscapes and lush alien ladies limbo dancing before my eyes. In skyscraper heels and skintight spacesuits they want to run, but stumble and fall, their heavy breasts making them teeter and then tip over, right! into! the! arms! of invading robots and swarthy horny evil scientists.
In my dreams I remember space, stars, unknowable entities echoed in the unfathomed realms, and fear of monstrous fecundity projected across human millennia from treacherous man-eating seawitch siren lairs through fearsome folktales and onto the impossible physiques of fertile future babes.
I wake trailing this thread, the sense the archetypes connect in ways we know, in old awe from before we were smooth, before we were upright. Pre-mammalian? And possibly post.”
In other news…
Congratulations…..
Jonathan Jones and Fiona Lowry have received New Work Grants from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
Joan Ross and Grants Stevens have been invited to participate in the University of Queensland Art Museum’s National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize 2011: Life is risk / Art is risk, from 24 September.
Joel Beerden, one of the gbk awardees, and Joan Ross have been selected for the RBS Emerging Artist Award 2011.
International flights….
Jonathan Jones’ solo exhibition untitled salt at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India from 1 October to 4 November.
Deborah Kelly features in From Blank Pages at Artspace Pool in Seoul, Korea, opening 21 October.
gbk is participating in the Korea International Art Fair (KIAF), at COEX Seoul, from 22 until 26 September. http://kiaf.org/2011new/Eng/main.html
Domestic flights…
Gordon Bennett features in House Inspection: Interior Motives at Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, until 1 October.
Richard Dunn’s solo exhibition Four Paintings after Albert Namatjira (dedicated to Ann Lewis) is at Moree Plains Gallery until 8 October.
Richard’s exhibition SNO 74 / Richard Dunn: Polygon at SNO, Sydney from 3 September to 23 September.
Jonathan Jones features in FREEDOM RIDERS: Art and activism 1960s to now at The University Art Gallery, University of Sydney until 25 September.
Jonathan also features in ®ECLAIMED: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ART at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery from 7 October until 20 November.
Fiona Lowry, Joan Ross and Grant Stevens feature The New Arcadia, curated by Kezia Geddes, at Lismore Regional Gallery until 10 September.